dine off

"You can dine off a success for a really long time."

But he knows he can no longer dine off nostalgia.

Once I remember boldly dining off nothing but a vegetable marrow.

A dining room table that was never dined off of, he thought dully.

They looked as if they had been dining off a cane toad each.

Prior to about the 1830s, however, it was usual for all classes to dine off earthenware.

Not if you're dining off the dollar menu.

If he were to retire today, he could dine off this for the rest of his life."

There were a lot of animals that would like to dine off nome, Masklin had said.

We dined off frogs' legs and pike fresh taken from the tank in the yard of the restaurant.

He got a cab outside the precinct station and headed for 69th Street, dining off his nails en route.

You dined off it ten years ago!

The Harcourts were friendly with royalty and there is no doubt that a lot of very important people will have dined off this service.

I dined off bread and cheese and this excellent claret.

He was more likely a marginal scion of a wealthy German family, playing at supernatural games while dining off dividends.

They dined off canned corned beef hash and went promptly to bed.

Every honeyeater in the valley is dining off the trees and the falling fragments cause ducks to stampede.

You can't dine off an ancient bloodline," growled Cotta. "

They were dining off fish.

"They dined off metal trays left behind by the Navy and lived in the sailors' wooden barracks.

Her three cats dine off Versace plates.

Students of the Libyan story say I am in little early peril of having to dine off my hat.

The joint of mutton that the family had dined off the previous evening stood on the deal table, under a steel mesh fly-cover.

Branca pitched the ball that Thomson hit for a homer that both have dined off since.

Tonight we'll dine off roast mutton.